Live Streaming

How Streaming Works

Streaming means listening to music or watching video in ‘real time’, instead of downloading a file to your computer and watching it later. As broadband availability has increased and compression standards have become more efficient, streaming has become a hugely popular way to publish high-quality live and on-demand video.

A Typical Streaming Media Workflow

Below we will illustrate the three main parts of the streaming workflow:

Input/publishing
Live video capture from an encoder or network-ready camera to a sever